Miloslav Stingl (19 December 1930 – 11 May 2020) was a Czech ethnologist, traveller and author.[1] [2] He is an expert on Mayan culture and the history of pre-Columbian America.
Stingl was born in Bílina. He studied international law at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University before switching to ethnography.[3] He worked for ten years at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences from 1962 to 1972. Stingl was a signatory of the, a condemnation of Charter 77. However Stingl signed unaware of the content of the Charter, and later regretted his participation.